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Taboo


Skills:
Level:
Class Size:
Speaking & listening
Intermediate - Advance
Any
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Materials: None

Objective

In Taboo a word is chosen to be the taboo word. Students must in turn answer a question without using that word. This activity is a activity for any efl/esl conversation classes.

Instructions

1. Decide on a "taboo" word with your class, and the person who will act as questioner. The taboo word can be any common word such as "and", "he", "she" and so on.

2. The questioner puts a question to all the other players. The question can be able anything, the goal is to get as many people as possible to use the taboo word. Anyone who hesitates or takes too long to answer is out of the game.

The last player left is the winner.